Help Users Find Your Books

Once you send Google your titles (or upload them as PDF files), we'll add them to our
index for free. By matching the content in your books with user searches, Google Books
connects your books with the users who are most interested in buying them.

Each Google Books result will display the book’s title and author, a short excerpt
containing the highlighted search terms, and other public data about the book.

Drive Book Sales

Clicking on your book from a search results page takes users to a limited preview of
your title – just enough to give them a taste of the book, as if they were browsing in
a bookstore or library.

Links to bookstores and online retailers make it easy for users to go from browsing to
buying. If you sell your books directly from your own website, your site receives “top
billing,” appearing first in the list of purchase links. Google Books previews also
appear on book-related sites like online retailers and social book networks.

Keep Your Content Protected

Users get a taste of your book—but only a taste. We scan the full text of your book
because we want people to be able to search all its content. But users can only access
a limited number of pages to determine whether they've found what they're looking for.

We understand that your books are valuable, so we treat them with special care. All the
books you send us will be hosted on Google servers and protected by the same security
as Google.com’s search data.

To further protect your book content, printing and image copying functions are disabled
on all Google Books pages.

Enhance Your Site

As a Google Books partner, you have access to Google Preview - code that allows you to
embed previews of your books right on your website. With Google Preview, you can easily
enhance your site, for free.

Visitors to your site can browse and search within your books right on each book’s
product page.

Track Your Success

Of course you’ll want to track how you’re doing—and you can.

Online reports let you manage your account information, view how many consumers have
looked at your titles, see click rates on purchase links, and review other stats
related to the Google Books program.